Frankie Kade · Hockey Romance
FIND YOUR TROPE
I write one minor-league hockey team and five complete love stories. Pick the trope you can't resist — every link goes to the book that does it best.
Grumpy-Sunshine Hockey Romance
Grumpy-sunshine is the trope I will never get tired of writing — one person who has decided feelings are a scheduling conflict, and one person who is sunshine in human form and refuses to be intimidated by a scowl. In hockey romance it hits even harder, because the grump is usually the captain holding the whole locker room together and the sunshine is the one person who gets to see him off the ice.
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Enemies-to-Lovers Hockey Romance
Enemies-to-lovers only works if the fighting is real and the reason underneath it is realer. I write the kind where the banter has teeth, the dislike is earned, and the moment it flips you realize they were never actually enemies — they were just the only two people refusing to lie to each other.
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Friends-to-Lovers Hockey Romance
Friends-to-lovers is the trope for readers who want the fall to feel inevitable. There is no manufactured misunderstanding here — just two people who already trust each other completely, and the terrifying, wonderful moment one of them realizes they want more and might lose the friend to get the love.
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Single Dad Hockey Romance
Single dad (and single mom) is the trope where the stakes are never just two hearts. I write the gentle-giant kind: the man the league pays to fight, who off the ice is the softest person in the room, and the woman who has every reason not to trust soft and lets herself anyway — because of, and for, a kid.
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Forbidden Hockey Romance
Forbidden romance is only as good as the reason it is forbidden — and I do not do contrived. This is the athlete and the journalist who is supposed to be writing about him: every honest moment is a conflict of interest, and the closer they get the more both careers are on the line. It is the series finale, and it earns every bit of its ending.
Hat Trick →
He Falls First Hockey Romance
He-falls-first is the whole reason I write dual POV. There is nothing better than being inside the head of a man who is completely, helplessly gone while she still thinks they are just colleagues. My heroes are inarticulate out loud and devastating on the page — you get to watch the exact moment each one is done for.
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Spicy Hockey Romance Series
If you want a hockey romance series you can binge — a found-family locker room, a different couple every book, heat that earns its rating, and a guaranteed HEA every single time — this is the one. The Northside Rebels is five books. Each one stands completely alone; together they are one team you will not want to leave.
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